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title: In the farmyard, he found the milking stool and the pails, all batte… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: In the farmyard, he found the milking stool and the pails, all battered and scarred and broken; and there, too, he found a long lock of blood-covered hair which he knew too well had once belonged to the Maid of Beauty, the mistress of his household and his life. Who acts: floor, long lock. A sentenc
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 49

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In the farmyard, he found the milking stool and the pails, all battered and scarred and broken; and there, too, he found a long lock of blood-covered hair which he knew too well had once belonged to the Maid of Beauty, the mistress of his household and his life.

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**Who acts:** floor, long lock · **What happens:** find, batter, scar, break, cover, know · **To what, where:** milking stool, farmyard, pails, covered hair · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (floor, long lock), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:31:49
# text = In the farmyard, he found the milking stool and the pails, all battered and scarred and broken; and there, too, he found a long lock of blood-covered hair which he knew too well had once belonged to the Maid of Beauty, the mistress of his household and his life.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	farmyard	farmyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	milking	milking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	stool	stool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	pails	pail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	all	all	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	battered	batter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	scarred	scar	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	too	too	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	lock	lock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	amod	_	_
35	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
36	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	obj	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
39	too	too	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	38	advmod	_	_
41	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
42	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	43	advmod	_	_
43	belonged	belong	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	ccomp	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	Maid	Maid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	appos	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
56	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
57	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | floor | the milking stool and the pails |  | the farmyard |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stool=Topic |
| 2 | **batter** | participle |  | the pails *not said here* |  |  |  | all *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **scar** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **find** | past | floor |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **cover** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | blood *compound* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **know** | past | floor | covered hair |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
| 8 | **belong** | past · perfect | a long lock of covered hair |  |  |  |  | to the Maid of Beauty; once *property* | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 66819 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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